Cardio Report

Happy Heart News #1:
LadyKay's testing went fine and her heart is "as good as the day she was born."

Happy Heart News #2:
Peeper's heart is better than the day she was born!

The echocardiogram showed that her ventricular septal defect (VSD) has gotten a little bit smaller. It started out at, I think, 4.4 mm x 6 mm and now it's more like 4.4 mm x 5 mm.

Dr. C says that "We're not out of the woods yet," about the possibility of surgery, but as long as it's getting smaller, he'll "drag his feet" about bringing a surgeon into the picture.

You may remember that, when the VSD was first diagnosed, he also told us that she has an atrial septal defect (ASD) "but I'm not worried about that."

We asked about it tday, and it's still there. We honestly don't remember if he said it had changed in size or not.

If she did end up needing surgery for the VSD, they would fix the ASD at the same time.

Or, even if the VSD fixes itself, there could still be ASD surgery down the road, (Years down the road, I think?) but he is really not concerned at all with it right now.

He was happy with her weight gain, eating, and everything else, too.

Their scale weighed her at either 8 pounds 6 ounces or 8.6 pounds. (It said 8 lbs last time.)

When we saw the weight, I first took it to be pounds/ounces, but later realized that I wasn't sure it wasn't pounds/tenths.

I would rather it be 8.6 pounds, which should be around 8 lb 9 oz, because a nine-ounce gain over sixteen days is a lot better than a six-ounce gain.

Of course, we've seen wierd things from their scale before anyway, and at best, it tends to weigh a few ounces higher than the pediatrician's scale, so I'm going to wait and see what theirs says.

Oh yeah, that's a whole 'nother thing.

There's much confusion between our two insurance companies about who's covering her, who's primary or secondary and the such, so her Synagis (RSV) shot that she was supposed to get on Thursday hasn't been approved or delivered.

We're hoping for Monday.